Definition of yarborough

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yar·bor·ough

(yär

bûr

, -b

) KEY

NOUN:
Games

A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), said to have bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur

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